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title: Ascertain the year in which the last coal-fired power station in Bri… — Coal, oil and gas · tree and pragmatics
description: Ascertain the year in which the last coal-fired power station in Britain was closed. Exam question 4 of lesson 59 «Coal, oil and gas» of the geography course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong.
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# Exam question 4 · Coal, oil and gas

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Ascertain the year in which the last coal-fired power station in Britain was closed.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** ascertain, fire, close · **To what, where:** last fired power station

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 59 «Coal, oil and gas» of the geography course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: [the test at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/geography/59-coal-oil-and-gas/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:59-coal-oil-and-gas:e4:1
# text = Ascertain the year in which the last coal-fired power station in Britain was closed.
1	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	obl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
7	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
8	coal	coal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	fired	fire	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	amod	_	_
11	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	station	station	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Britain	Britain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	closed	close	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ascertain** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  | year |  | vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **fire** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **close** | past · passive |  | the last fired power station in Britain |  |  | in the year |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: subject=Patient in which=Topic |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Two thousand and fifty

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:59-coal-oil-and-gas:e4:o1:1
# text = Two thousand and fifty
1	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	compound	_	_
2	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	fifty	fifty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	conj	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Nineteen hundred and twenty-four

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:59-coal-oil-and-gas:e4:o2:1
# text = Nineteen hundred and twenty-four
1	Nineteen	nineteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	compound	_	_
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
4	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	conj	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Eighteen hundred and forty-two

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:59-coal-oil-and-gas:e4:o3:1
# text = Eighteen hundred and forty-two
1	Eighteen	eighteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	compound	_	_
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	forty	forty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	flat	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Two thousand and twenty-four

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:59-coal-oil-and-gas:e4:o4:1
# text = Two thousand and twenty-four
1	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	compound	_	_
2	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
4	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	conj	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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**Text:** the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (`world/data/school/`), as the course runner gave them to the student. **Trees:** Mova's own parse — the `en` model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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